What’s stalling
enterprise AI?

The top 25 patterns right now.

The models hold up and the compute is there. What’s missing is the return.

Twelve of the 25 patterns this quarter trace back to leadership. Seven rank in the top ten. Most barriers that look like a workforce problem start with a decision made higher up, or never made at all.

Ground Truth Index draws on a library of nearly 300 barriers documented across thousands of conversations with business leaders.

Ground Truth Index

See the whole board.

A 30-minute briefing on what the patterns look like inside companies and why they get misread. Tell us about your organization and we’ll focus on the ones that matter most to you.

Our methodology

The library.

Leaders describe what’s happening inside their companies and we name the patterns underneath. To date that’s 300 patterns, drawn from 2,000 conversations across 595 organizations.

The scoring.

Each quarter, five analyst agents score every pattern in the library. Each agent brings a professional orientation: risk strategist, field practitioner, technologist, cultural analyst, and organizational theorist. They score against five dimensions set by our team: gravity, velocity, proximity, progression, and scale probability.

The agents work independently and can’t see each other’s results. Each pattern’s score is the median of the five, so no single read can skew it. That gives a consistent baseline at a speed researchers couldn’t match.

The adjudication.

The top 50 come back to us for review. Where the agents split, or where media signal doesn’t align with what we see in the field, we look again. Any change to the ranking is ours, made against what we heard, from whom, and how often.

The output.

We publish the 25 highest-priority patterns each quarter. Shifts in the Index over time track changing conditions inside companies.

The team

The Index draws on client, prospect, and industry conversations across the Andus Labs team. These five are closest to it.

Mike Connery, Partner, Intelligence, owns the pattern library, scoring criteria, and adjudication. Chris Perry, CEO, established the Index and leads the field work behind it. Jordan Harrod, PhD, is the data architect behind how field observations are ingested and classified. Kelly Sullivan and Allison Pearce adjudicate alongside them, both hands-on practitioners focused on the human impacts of technology change.